re: Progressives have a new minimum wage goal: $20 and up

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I'm sure the people who are currently making $20/hour are thrilled to have their hard work devalued. They thought they finally worked their way up and now they're on the bottom tier with window licker burger flippers.

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Well the logic that people working minimum wage are underpaid also leads you to almost everyone being underpaid if you follow that logic to its conclusion.

You can train a guy on a fast food position in a day. He won't be great at it for a while, but he can do it well enough that the place isn't at risk of shutting down while hes on the clock. If someone you can replace with literally anyone off the street makes $20 an hour, a medical coder or something making $20 an hour currently in theory should get a raise because they are bringing skills to the table. Would they in practice get a raise? Probably not. And if they did it wouldn't be a $7.25 to $20 type raise.